METHOD FOR MONITORING DOWNLINK CONTROL CHANNEL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR

• US 20150271691A1
• Filed: 11/27/2013
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Seungmin, Kim, Hakseong, Seo, Hanbyul
• Granted Patent: US 9,473,965 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/23 in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for monitoring, by a terminal, an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. In detail, the method includes the steps of receiving monitoring information about a first cell from a base station and a second cell cross-carrier scheduled from the first cell; and monitoring the EPDCCH on the basis of the monitoring information, wherein the monitoring information includes information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated, when the maximum number of enhanced control channel elements (ECCE)) available in a specific EPDCCH set on the first cell does not support the number of the EPDCCH candidates of an aggregation level with respect to the second cell.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH), by a user equipment, in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, from a base station, monitoring information on a first cell and a second cell cross-carrier scheduled from the first cell; and

monitoring the EPDCCH on the basis of the monitoring information,

wherein the monitoring information includes information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated, when the maximum number of enhanced control channel elements (ECCE) available in a specific EPDCCH set on the first cell does not support the number of the EPDCCH candidates of a special aggregation level related to the second cell.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information allocated as the number of EPDCCH candidates, which exceeds the maximum number of ECCEs available in the special EPDCCH set on the first cell, is omitted.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information that the number of EPDCCH candidates is reallocated at an aggregation level less than the special aggregation level.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the second cell for the special EPDCCH set is reallocated as the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell for the special aggregation level.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is a scheduling cell, and the second cell is a scheduled cell.

10. The user equipment according to claim 1, wherein the first cell is a scheduling cell, and the second cell is a scheduled cell.

6. A user equipment for monitoring an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) in a wireless communication system, which supports carrier aggregation, the user equipment comprising:

a radio frequency (RF) unit; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to receive, from a base station, monitoring information on a first cell and a second cell cross-carrier scheduled from the first cell and monitor the EPDCCH on the basis of the monitoring information, and

the monitoring information includes information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated, when the maximum number of enhanced control channel elements (ECCE)) available in a specific EPDCCH set on the first cell does not support the number of the EPDCCH candidates of a special aggregation level related to the second cell.

7. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information allocated as the number of EPDCCH candidates, which exceeds the maximum number of ECCEs available in the special EPDCCH set on the first cell, is omitted.

8. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information that the number of EPDCCH candidates is reallocated at an aggregation level less than the special aggregation level.

9. The user equipment according to claim 6, wherein the information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell is reallocated is information that the number of EPDCCH candidates on the second cell for the special EPDCCH set is reallocated as the number of EPDCCH candidates on the first cell for the special aggregation level.